46 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A list of the contents of the cases in the Department has 

 been prepared, and the work of verifying the contents from 

 the case-list and inserting the case-number in the various 

 portfolios, etc. has been taken in hand. 



The Cheylesmore Collection of sale-catalogues has been 

 examined ; such numbers as were not required for the Museum 

 Collection have been eliminated ; and the work of indexing 

 those required has been carried out. 



A duplicate set of slips for the Index of Foreign Portraits 

 has been begun. 



The preparation of a second working copy of the register of 

 the Cheylesmore Collection has been completed. 



The type-writing for press of the Catalogue of Japanese 

 Woodcuts has been continued. 



The work of copying the slips of the Catalogue of Engraved 

 British Portraits has been continued. 



All additions and corrections to the indexes of artists made 

 necessary by recent acquisitions and i-e-arrangements have been 

 carried out. 



Registration. — One thousand eight hundred and eighty-six 

 items have been entered in the Register of Acquisitions. 



Stamping and Mounting. — Three thousand eight hundred 

 and fifty-two prints, drawings, etc., recently acquired, have 

 been impressed with the departmental stamp and references to 

 the Register. 



One hundred and fifty-nine miscellaneous drawings have 

 been prepared and mounted on sunk mounts, and one hundred 

 and sixty-seven prints have been mounted either on sunk 

 mounts or in the ordinary manner. 



Two hundred and twenty-five prints have been lettered with 

 the artists' names and references to the Register. 



The work of stamping the Franks Collection of admission 

 and invitation cards has been begun. 



Six drawings by Michelangelo have been protected with 

 gelatine and mounted in special mounts. 



Twenty-six Japanese woodcuts requiring special treatment 

 have been repaired and cleaned. 



Two important Japanese paintings, one by Sesshiu, the 

 other by an anonymous master of the Tosa school, have been 

 framed, glazed and mounted on six fold screens. 



Forty-nine Chinese Buddhist paintings on silk, and one on 

 paper, from the collection formed in Turkestan by Dr. Stein, 

 were mounted in a complete manner by the chief mounter for 

 exhibition during the summer months in the Indian section of 

 the Festival of Empire at the Cr^'-stal Palace. 



Two hundred and fifty-seven Chinese Buddhist paintings on 

 silk, and sixty seven prints, portions of banners, brocades, and 



